Storagepipe shares with us a video infographic explaining the importance of data protection, including online backup with encryption and data recovery.
It’s a great video explaining why it’s important to encrypt your data, back it up, test your backups, and what could happen to your business if you don’t have reliable backups.
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In case you missed the news last week, Mozy has officially opened up service to the UK and Ireland.
As an Internet-based company, this announcement may seem surprising. After all, users in the UK and Ireland could previously backup their data with Mozy. However, with closer data centers now available, users in the UK and Ireland can expect to see faster upload speeds.
In addition, users are now able to pay in their local currency. While £4.99 per month for unlimited backup is still a bargain, it’s still a 52% premium over $4.99 USD users were paying before. That additional cost gives users faster access to their data (thanks to physically closer data centers) and better security, thanks to stricter UK data security standards.
Users can signup for Mozy in the UK at mozy.co.uk or in Ireland at mozy.ie.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen some incredible things in this world (more on this later). To be with nature and stare in awe of its magnificence is something we should all stop and do once & a while.
Online Backups Review is committed to working with Mother Earth, so today we’re making two announcements:
First, we’ve made a donation to CarbonFund.org, offsetting the carbon footprint of our servers & small office for the next year. While we don’t have as many servers as some of the big online backup companies, we’ve glad to be doing our part.
Second, from today (Earth Day) through Arbor Day (Friday the 30th) we will plant a tree for every Mozy account signed up through us. It’s really simple… get your 15% Mozy promotional code, which tracks the customer came from us. Then working with the Arbor Day Foundation,U.S. Forest Service, and National Association of State Foresters, we’ll have a tree planted for each paid order from April 22nd through April 30th.
This program is being run exclusively by OnlineBackupsReview.com; trees will only be purchased and planted for paid orders referred by us. The best way to do this is to use our Mozy promotional code and save 15% with your order.
Save 15%, save your data, save the planet. Everybody wins.
JungleDisk, the popular online backup service which stores your files with Amazon S3 (read our JungleDisk review), has released an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Now, you can view your photos, download important documents, or listen to your mp3 collection while you’re on the go.
In addition to releasing their app today, JungleDisk is giving away an iPad! Simply answer via Twitter, What do you want to access anywhere?
and include @jungledisk and #jungledisk in your tweet. There will be two drawings on April 6th and April 9th.
Rumors started flying a couple days ago that Mozy is Working on a Windows Home Server Software Client for their unlimited MozyHome service. At that time, we didn’t report on it as there was little proof to the claim, other than an email from an unnamed tech support employee:
Our Research team is working to develop a client for Windows Home Server for MozyHome customers. Once it is developed you can switch back to MozyHome and back up Windows Home Server.
However, when I reached out to Mozy to get an official statement, they replied:
Mozy supports Windows (Home) Server with its MozyPro offering, not MozyHome. We do not have any plans at this time to include server support in our MozyHome offering.
So, if you’re running WHS, don’t expect to be able to use MozyHome anytime soon.
Backblaze released version 1.0.6 of their client software this month, and users should be seeing the rollout very soon. To improve performance, the new version Reduces network traffic between client and Backblaze data center.
There are also improvements to the Mac client, handling errors during installation and other small fixes.
Read our Backblaze review for more about this top-rated online backup service.
We learned that today, Gigmax is officially launching their Windows online storage service. Gigmax claims remote access, file sharing, and off-site backup as a few of their features.
Gigmax.com, LLC was established in August 2005 with the intent of making it easier for people to store and transfer files without having to carry around any tangible object, such as USB flash drives.
Also, rather than emailing files to yourself and then having a bunch of different emails with a bunch of different files, the goal of Gigmax.com was to have users just store all their files in one place.
You can get 2GB for free, or pay up to $24.99 / month for 150GB, with other options avilable in-between.
Gigmax’s “Community” section is interesting. There, you can see the most popular shared file, the top users, and stats on the various types of files shared. Currently, images, executibles, and a few mp3s are in the top 25 downloaded files.
While Gigmax lists off-site backup as a feature, the process isn’t automatic, like other online backup services. You can only save the files to your Gigmax drive, whereas services like Mozy or Backblaze will backup all of the data on your computer.
If you’re looking for some online storage space, Gigmax may be for you. Just be careful what files you have set as private, versus public.
SugarSync, a 4-star rated online backup service, recently announced support to upload files via email. Now, any file that is attached to an email can be saved in your SugarSync account. In addition, the files are scanned for viruses upon arriving at SugarSync. The email address can be kept private, or shared with colleagues to allow them to upload files into your account.
In addition to this new product offering, and to support the large accounts of some users, they are also adding a new pricing level: $39.99 / month for 500GB of storage.
Read our review of SugarSync, or visit SugarSync.com to learn more.
Secure Backup & Share Provides An Easy and Safe Way for Customers to Share and Preserve Their Digital Files like Photos, Music, Videos and More
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, starting today is launching Secure Backup & Share to help its high-speed Internet customers reduce their risk of losing important files that are saved on their computers. According to Mozy, an industry leading online backup service from EMC (NYSE: EMC), an average of 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States every week. In addition to hard drive crashes, files that are saved digitally can be lost due to human error, stolen or misplaced computers, as well as viruses. Comcast wants to help reduce the risk of data loss and is encouraging consumers to backup and secure their digital files.
“Physical belongings once stored in shoeboxes, orange crates and manila file folders are now in the form of digital files spread across various computers and smart phones. Unfortunately, these digital files can be lost forever as the result of a simple hard drive crash, or after leaving a laptop bag in a taxi,” said Harel Kodesh, President of Mozy. “Online backup provides the peace-of-mind that comes from knowing your valuable files will always be available from just about anywhere at anytime.”
“As customers create and consume more digital media content, the need for online backup and storage increases significantly. Backup devices, like an external hard drive, can be lost, stolen or damaged in a fire and even if you put your backup device in a safe-deposit box, you probably aren’t updating it regularly,” said Cathy Avgiris, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Data Services for Comcast. “Secure Backup & Share is embedded into our high-speed Internet service so you can retrieve and share your personal digital media from any Web-enabled or wireless device. Our cloud based storage solution will provide our customers with the backup and storage they need today as well as in the future,” Avgiris added.
Secure Backup & Share allows customers to backup and share important files and offers features including:
For more information about Secure Backup & Share, visit www.Comcast.net/backup.
BOSTON — February 2, 2010 — Carbonite, Inc., today announced Carbonite Pro, a version of its market-leading online backup service specifically designed for small businesses. Carbonite Pro is aimed at companies that want to protect the data on all their PCs easily and inexpensively. There is a free trial available at www.CarbonitePro.com.
Carbonite already backs up data for more than 100,000 small businesses that use the Carbonite® consumer product, which offers unlimited backup for $54.95 per year per computer. Carbonite found business users had different requirements from consumers, so Carbonite Pro includes many new features that small businesses have requested.
“Small businesses don’t always do a very good job of backing up their office computers,” said Carbonite CEO and co-founder David Friend. “So, many of them have been turning to Carbonite as a way to easily and inexpensively back up their laptop and desktop computers. Now we have a version of Carbonite that incorporates everything that these small-business users have been asking for: no per-PC fees, administrative tools that are simple enough for any office manager to use, the ability to back up external drives and priority support. Nobody wants to spend a lot of time or money backing up computers, so we’ve made Carbonite Pro a simple and affordable online backup service for businesses.”
Simplicity. One doesn’t need a technical background to use Carbonite Pro. Getting started is quick and hassle-free.
Security. Files are encrypted before they leave the employees’ computers. They are stored safely offsite at the Carbonite state-of-the-art data centers. If an employee leaves the company, the administrator can quickly disable his or her access to backups.
Affordable data protection. Carbonite Pro starts with a free one-month trial and continues with a simple tiered pricing structure based on how much data a business chooses to store. There are no licensing, set-up or per-computer fees. Full pricing information can be found at www.CarbonitePro.com.
Centralized administration. Carbonite Pro protects data across the company with little ongoing effort. An administrator dashboard makes it easy to see the status of every employee’s backup.
Back it up. Get it back.™ Backing up is important. But quickly recovering lost files is even more important. When disaster strikes, the Restore Wizard guides customers step-by-step to recover lost or damaged files. Priority phone support, live-chat, and email support gets you quick answers to questions or problems.
Remote access. Carbonite Pro customers can log into their accounts on CarbonitePro.com from any computer with an internet connection and download any file in their backups.
About Carbonite
The Carbonite industry-first offer of unlimited online backup for a flat, low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. Since 2006, the company has backed up more than 39 billion files and has restored more than 3.2 billion lost files for its customers. Carbonite backs up more than 100 million files every day to high-redundancy storage servers in its Boston and Somerville, Mass. data centers.
The Carbonite mission is to provide a simple, affordable, and secure backup solution for the mainstream computer user. Carbonite supports both the Windows and Mac platforms. For now, Carbonite Pro supports Windows only. Carbonite is available directly at www.carbonite.com, and through international distributors. Carbonite Pro is available directly at www.carbonitepro.com.
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